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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Russia has offered to send technical experts to Cuba to help optimize Cuban air defenses

Currently, the Cuban air defenses are largely ineffective.

The main anti-aircraft weapons are some SAM-6 (self-propelled system that fires 1200 pound missiles with a range of 24 kilometers), SAM-8 (self-propelled system that fires 360 pound missiles with a range of 15 kilometers) and several shorter range (4-8 kilometers) missiles, either portable or self-propelled.

Most of these are inoperable, as Cuba has had little money for spare parts and maintenance since Russian aid was ended in the early 1990s.

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  1. Bryan Myrick7/11/08 00:17

    Will new Russia take a page from old Russia's playbook? Vice president-elect Joe Biden said it first, the world would test the new president in the same way they tested JFK.

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